Husbands

Famous quotes containing the word husbands:

“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)

“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)